Action Request: Show Your Support for Extending the Expired Tax Provisions

January 1, 2010, marked the expiration date of a number of temporary tax provisions that benefited a wide range of individuals, organizations and businesses. These key incentives and other provisions that expire at the end of this year cover a wide range of activities and will help spur badly needed economic growth and job creation. Despite broad-based, bicameral, bipartisan support for these provisions, Congress has been unsuccessful to date in its efforts to extend these important tax provisions. Time is running out and legislators have one last chance to extend expiring provisions when they return to Washington in mid-November for a "lame duck" session before the 111th Congress ends. In order to jumpstart efforts to move on the tax extenders it is important to show as much support as possible. If any of these "extenders" are important to your organization, we urge you to add your organization's name to this broad-based letter. We sent an initial letter to every member of Congress on November 16th that included almost 1,300 organization names. We plan to send a similar letter with more names when Congress returns after Thanksgiving. For further information, contact Dorothy Coleman or Monica Mcguire

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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE U.S. CONGRESS:

The undersigned represent millions of individuals and businesses. We urge Congress to pass legislation in the lame duck session to extend critical tax provisions that, while temporary in nature, are critical to our economy. It is of the utmost importance to all of us, and to the health of the U.S. economy, that this extension be enacted before the end of the year and apply seamlessly through 2011.

Expiration of many of these provisions has already caused job losses, and the uncertainty around their extension will lead to further dislocations just as the fragile economic recovery is beginning. We all look forward to working with you on this issue in the coming weeks.

Sincerely,
[Companies and associations in alphabetical order]